When 5 Seconds of Summer were invited to join the nostalgia-heavy When We Were Young Festival in 2023, their immediate response was an eager yes. They likely would have ended up on the Las Vegas ...

There is so much that has happened this past year in the pop-punk scene, and I’m stoked to be making music. Being able to get back onstage has also been a lot of fun because I’ve been able to travel ...

Twenty years after Avril Lavigne released her first album, "Let Go," the pop-punk star is back with a new record. Her return coincides with a resurgence of the pop-punk genre. Olivia Rodrigo brought ...

In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that weren’t always ...

When pop punk exploded in the 1990s, punk purists saw it as a bastardization of the genre, the opposite of everything punk stood for, and a threat to the genre’s reputation. The more popular, polished ...

The pop-punk band Weezer’s self-titled, “Green Album.” This album, although it was successful itself, it caused many fans to become weary of the pop-punk genre, and caused many changes in later ...

From Blink-182 and Green Day to Yellowcard and Paramore, many pop-punk bands have stolen the hearts of rock music lovers. Though the genre has slightly shifted as the years (or decades) have passed, ...

When you get down to it, pop-punk is one of the most fun genres of music out there in the world. It’s energetic, loud, fast, irreverent, and catchy. The songs don’t necessarily deal with serious ...

Spotify Wrapped 2025 did more than just show me my favorite bands of the year, it also introduced me to genres that I didn't even know existed. Spotify has found itself in hot water lately. However, ...

Pop punk is an interesting genre. So many millennials look back at the golden age of pop punk with a sense of longing and nostalgia. Those bands, however, seem to want nothing more than to escape the ...